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 Although students are now off pursuing life beyond RISD, they worked as hard as ever this year experimenting with new materials and methods, and pushing themselves to make creative breakthroughs. A number of studios focused on tangible, real-world problems in need of strong design solutions — from energy issues to disaster relief. Several Architecture students worked on an affordable housing proposal for an artists’ community in Tiverton, RI, while others worked with a visiting architect from Cuba to design suitable housing for the historic center of Havana. In Naval Architecture Meets G.I. Joe, an advanced Industrial Design studio, students met dockside with members of the US Coast Guard to find out about changing surveillance needs and explore key features of the USCG’s latest patrol boat. For more about the studio, watch this video.
look around
• In a recent article in Time magazine (5.23.05), Microsoft Vice President J Allard asks: “Guess how you get great design? You don’t try to do it with computer scientists from MIT; you don’t try to do it the conventional way one would think about from a Microsoft point of view.” Instead, “Allard hired a sculptor from Rhode Island School of Design and gave him a long leash.” The sculptor referred to is Jonathan Hayes MID ’95, who helped develop the look of Microsoft’s new video-game console, the Xbox 360.
• Shepard Fairey ’92 IL (of Obey Giant fame) is one of six graffiti artists chosen as “in-game mentors” for a neophyte tagger in Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, a PlayStation2 game to be released in September. “We have gathered some of the most acclaimed artists from all over the world [to help capture] the expression, creativity and passion that drives a [graffiti] writer to put his life out there in the name of the most powerful art movement in recent history,” notes Marc Ecko, the creative director behind Getting Up (which also features the talents of J.R. Register ’99 IL).
• “It ain’t easy being a country singer-conceptualist,” Andy Friedman ’98 PT told a Newsday reporter before hitting the stage at Manhattan’s Bowery Poetry Club, where he’s playing every Thursday through July 7. Defying country music stereotypes with his personal brand of performance art, Friedman plays acoustic guitar and screens changing images of his paintings, drawings and photographs to complement the lyrics of his songs.
on campus
new museum director
Hope Alswang, president and CEO of the Shelburne [VT] Museum, will become the next director of The RISD Museum, effective September 12. “She’s got high energy, and great ideas, [and is] very much a community activist,” President Mandle told The Providence Journal earlier this month.
teens arrive en masse
Roughly 485 high school students — the largest number ever — are arriving at RISD this weekend to begin six weeks of intensive study through the Pre-College Program. To hear what a half dozen of last year’s students thought of the program, watch these videos.
rsa at risd
At a Royal Society of Arts symposium held earlier this month, architect Steve Durkee BAR ’86 noted that Providence, like many other cities, desperately needs more affordable housing, but instead is getting more luxury apartments. He was just one of many provocative speakers at the international event focused on transforming urban communities.
from the alumni association
• Update your mailing address, tell us about your new job and stay connected to fellow alumni via the online Alumni Directory. It’s free and easy to use, too.
• REEL RISD, a new traveling film program, will take a collection of the best RISD student films on the road in 2005-06. If you know of a good location in your area for a screening, please e-mail Steve Whitten, director of Alumni + Career Services.
• Ramp up your connections with the creative marketplace through Coroflot, a valuable design directory. Its parent site, Core77, also offers a wealth of resources — job listings, portfolio space, current design news and an extensive directory of design firms.
As a complement to risd views, the college magazine, eviews is produced by RISD’s Design Marketing Collaborative and e-mailed to readers monthly during the academic year (i.e. we don’t publish in July or August). Questions? Comments? Send a message to risdviews@risd.edu.
If you would prefer to receive this newsletter at a different e-mail address, please update your information at www.risd.edu/alumni_directory.cfm.
© Rhode Island School of Design 2005
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Robert Cronin ’59 PT
Haddad Lascano Gallery
Great Barrington, MA
through July 10
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Michael Guy ’75 PT
risd|works
Providence, RI
July 8-August 13
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Melissa Gould ’79 PH
IG Bildende Kunst gallery
Vienna, Austria
through July 22
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Anne Connors Winner
’69 TX/MAT ’71
Piermont Fine Arts Gallery
Piermont, NY
July 7-24
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Alecia Underhill ’88 IL
Abode, Oak Bluffs
Martha’s Vineyard, MA
August 11-31
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Amalie Rothschild ’67 GD
Tate Liverpool
Liverpool, England
through September 25
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